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In his quest for the third way Tony essentially emasculated his party in order to neutralise possible threats to him. There are no real credible, powerful "new" Labour figures.

Livingstone would get trounced in a general election. Antipathy to Blair only goes so far and Ken is still deeply mired in the GLC debacle and the press would have a field day. Ken likes the ladies and he's not adverse to giving blokes a slap.

If Labour are to remain in power, I think the Brown is the only choice. I think the differences between him and Blair are finally being driven out. Perhaps he could be a step in the right direction?

"I hear you on the ID card. I'd have to get one also... but woudn't it be sorta like a drivers license, that you have a week to present it on demand?"

No it's deeper than that. It's a stupid idea. Its stated aims are to stop terrorists so stupid as to not need explanation, actually let me exapnd "Hello I'm terrorist A here's my ID I'm here to blow up that building" , counter benefit fraud (hasn't worked in France etc.) and it allows the government to keep a detailed record of your most personal information. I can throw my other ID's away and the government would find it fairly difficult to id me. Once they have my Iris scan, DNA or whever else they want you're permanently at risk of being identified. With a liberal government this is not important. Ask the Germans if liberalism always prevails.

The reason that the Tories are toast at the moment is that Blair stole their voters. He had a historic chance to drag the country to the left but he bottled it when the business leaders told him to.